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St. Mary's Coli.eoe, September 17th, 1649. 
Sir: 

In compliance with the instructions of the Calocagathian and Reading Room 
Societies, the undersigned have the honor to tender you the grateful thanks of 
the Societies, for the able and eloquent Address with which you favored them 
at the late Commencement, and to request a copy of the same for publication. 
Hoping that you will accede to their wishes, they have the honor to remain 

Your faithful and obedient servants, 

J. F. McMdllin, 1 Commillec of 
C. O'DoNOVAN, > Calocazalldan 
G. PiiUDHOMiME, J Society. 
A. Dejean, f Committee of 

C. Desobry, > Reailini: Room 

E. I'rudhomme, ) Society. 

To Z. COLLINS LRE, Esq. 



Baltimore, September 19th, 1849. 

Gentlemen: 

I have received your favor of the 17th, requesting, on behalf of the Societies 

you represent, a copy of the very hurried and brief Address I delivered at your 

late Collegiate Commencement, it is scarcely worthy the consideration you have 

given it, but as an evidence of my regard and best wishes for your Societies, 

and the invaluable Institution of learning under whose auspices you are fostered, 

I submit for your disposal a copy, as desired. 

With much esteem, 

I am, very respectfully, yours, 

Z. COLLINS LEK. 

Messrs. J. F. McMiilmn, l Committee of 
C. O'Donovan, > Calocaoalhian 
G. Prddiiomme, ) Society. 
A. Dejean, 1 Committee of 

V. Desobry, > Heading Room 

K. Prudhomme, ) Society. 



ADDRESS 



BEFORE THE 

CALOCAGATHIAN AND READING ROOM SOCIETIES 

OF ST. MARY'S COLLEGE, BALTIMORE. 



Gentlemen : 

Your request, Hattering as it is, should have been declined, and 
on this occasion I ought rather to be a silent but grateful partici- 
pant in the ceremonies which will soon close to most of you, the 
classic associations of an Academic life. — Here, under the benign 
government of Christianity and letters, you have enjoyed many, I 
doubt not, very many days of unalloyed happiness, and in parting 
now from your Instructors, companions and friends, the wish will 
rise unbidden to the heart, that they and you may find in the un- 
known and untried future, friends as true, and scenes as delightful 
as those from which you are soon perhaps to separate forever. 

I could not, therefore, better discharge the duty you have called 
me to, than to endeavor in a few brief remarks, to fix your eyes 
on the brightest and noblest lessons and examples of private and 
public virtue which are to be found in that period of our national 
history, which I shall term the '^ Jlge of Washington." 

And at no time could we more appropriately pause and con- 
template the glorious men and measures of that truly heroic epoch : 
shadows, clouds and darkness are lowering over the world — the 
angry billows of discord and popular convulsion are breaking in 
fearful commotion around the ark of freedom and civilization, and 
the rights or the wrongs of mankind are to be maintained or vin- 
dicated only by preserving and diflusing the great principles with 
which the name of Washington is alone associated. 



I might solicit you to follow me back to the ancient and classic 
memories of the past, or speculate with me on the startling por- 
tents of the future — but these are themes familiar to your studies. 
The luminous page of Livy, the burning eloquence of Cicero, 
and the philosophy of the schools of Athens, would afford now 
but feeble lights for the pathway of an American student, who is to 
take his position and act his part on the large and ever varying 
theatre of this wonderful era. 

Onward — onward — is the watch-word of enterprize and ambition ; 
and upward the aim of him who would be a leader, a reformer and 
a benefactor in this the 19th century. 

From the birth to the death of George Washington is compre- 
hended the most interesting record of modern times. This illus- 
trious man, without advantages from birth, wealth or education, 
has left for the admiration of posterity, a character which is 
acknowledged by the world to place him foremost in the first 
class of greatness : 

" Princeps fundatorum imperiorum." 

He was not admirable for genius, eminent for learning, distin- 
guished for eloquence, or remarkable for address. — Judgment, 
integrity, fortitude and benevolence, constituted and completed 
his character, exalting it to perfect magnanimity and the highest 
wisdom, a simple and sublime pre-eminence, that made men 
of genius, eloquence and address his inleriors and instruments 
— his objects were always noble, his means uniformly justifiable, 
and his measures the result of deep reflection, so that although 
his efforts occasionally were unsuccessful, they never fiiiled to 
be glorious — he came into life just in time to establish the free- 
dom of his country, and was withdrawn to a higher existence 
as soon as the growing strength of our institutions no longer re- 
quired his support. — His career in this respect resembling the 
great ^river of the Alps, which, descending from snow-crowned 
summits, pours a full current through the plains of Italy, when 
they languish under summer suns — in a word, of this great Al- 
fred of the Western World, it may be said with truth, that his des- 
tiny and principles so happily concurred, that he was not only the 
most meritorious, but the most useful and blameless patriot (hat 
ever lived. 



By his side on the field, and in the counsels of our infant Re- 
public, stood among its founders Alexander Hamilton, second to 
Washington alone, a position which reflects the brightest glory on 
them both. 

With a zeal fed by continual ardor, he devoted to the varying 
exigencies of his country, a mind whose resources were greater 
than the greatest occasion — his invention was quick, his judgment 
strong, his understanding capacious, his penetration acute, and 
his memory faithful — he was prudent in counsel, daring in the 
field, eloquent in the Senate, cogent and persuasive as a writer, 
and indefatigable and expeditious in the administration of affairs, 
disinterested, liberal, firm and enthusiastic, in matters of personal 
feeling and private honor, his frankness and spirit were proverbial, 
and in his last act perhaps excessive — he was killed, as you know, 
in a duel, by Col. Burr, and he went to the ground, determined to 
receive but not to return his adversary's fire — thus offering up his 
own life to a sense of honor, and shielding his enemy's by a feel- 
ing of religion, declaring that as a military man, he could not refuse 
invitation of Col. Burr, while as a christian, he would not shed the 
the blood of a fellow-creature in private combat. 

Of a life, the term of which fell short of fifty years, he gave 
twenty to the public service, and left it poor in everything but a 
title to renown and honor — this, nor a cruel death, nor a neglected 
grave, nor the virulence of party, could take away. 

And as a devoted patriot, an accomplished soldier, statesman, 
orator, scholar and gentleman, the memory of Hamilton will 
flourish so long as the admiration of mankind shall attend exalted 
genius, heroic virtues, generous affections and glorious deeds. 

These, gentlemen, were the two central figures, the command- 
ing spirits of the "Age of Washington," which, commencing on 
the 2"2d February, 1732, terminated with the close of his earthly 
career on the 13th December, 1799. 

Within the space of these sixty-seven memorable years, what a 
great work was accomplished for mankind, and how noble and 
illustrious the actors, by whose hands it was performed ? 

History had recorded the vain struggles of ancient and modern 
nations to establish a representative government, where laws were 
enacted by the people for their own benefit — a fierce and licen- 
tious democracy had given neither order or freedom to the Greek 
or the Roman, but rather paved the way for the iron heel of a mil- 
itary despotism, or the hopeless and desolating war of factions. 



8 

Italy had witnessed later struggles for republican government, 
as bloody and as fruitless as those which preceded the sceptre of 
the Caisars. — Venice and Genoa flourished while commerce, arts 
and letters occupied their citizens, but at no period of their proud 
and brilliant history did they enjoy the blessings which laws, based 
upon liberty, and liberty regulated by laws can alone bestow. 
Their maritime wealth and power, the lustre that was shed over 
them by victory, have faded away ; — all but the divine genius which 
their poets, sculptors and painters have preserved, and these Tyres 
of modern glory, with Florence and Ferara, are now remembered 
only because Tasso, Ariosto, Alheri, Dante, Petrarch and Ca- 
nova have linked them to immortal names. 

Wherever you turn your eyes from the earliest events of the 
Christian era down to the birth of Washington, there can be found 
no example of a free regulated government like ours, where per- 
fect equality and justice is secured to the governed. — The great 
problem of man's capacity for self-government, had, it is true, been 
tried, but without success. — England had proclaimed from the 
scaffold of Charles, a commonwealth, but Cromwell centred in 
his own person all the powers of king, lords and commons— =-it 
flourished for a time amid his armed puritan warriors, but perished 
the moment the Protector expired ; and from 1688 to 1732, re- 
publicanism was but the dream of a few noble and gifted spirits. 
Sidney, and Hampden, and Locke, had fondly and vividly wor- 
shipped its image — a beau ideal of freedom over which they 
yearned with the love of patriots, and to the fidelity of their devo- 
tion they had pledged themselves, while the dungeon and the block 
had not shaken their intrepid assertion of English liberty. The 
trial by jury, and the habeas corpus had, it is true, after revolution and 
bloodshed, been established, but still the great problem of human 
freedom was not yet solved. That wonderful and glorious solu- 
tion was reserved for America, and was promulgated first here by 
Washington and his compatriots. It was practically, fully estab- 
lished ; founded in the capacity of the people to govern them- 
selves, and recognizing the only sovereign power on earth to re- 
side in, and emanate from, the popular will. Washington was the 
herald of glad tidings, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 
preparing the way for a great civil millennium. The division of 
legislative, judicial and executive powers, so as to give each its 
true and proper scope, and at the same time lo preserve the har- 



9 

inony and independent efficiency of all, was the difficulty which 
lor ages had puzzled and ballled the wisest statesmen. 

But our fathers, with Washington at their liead, cut the Gor- 
dian knot, with the sword at first, througli a conflict of unparalleled 
suffering and sacrifice, but of final triumph and glory, and sev- 
ering the American Colonies from the English crown, renounced all 
allegiance to any power but that which was wielded by the people. 
The crown they recognized conferred no sovereignty — it was the 
laurel wreath placed by a grateful nation on the patriot's brow. 
The sceptre which they bowed to was the voiceless ballot, by which 
an American citizen expressed his wishes or commands to the 
rulers of a free people. — Avoiding, on the one hand, a wild and 
unlicensed democracy, and on tlie other unnecessary restraints 
and abridgments of popular rights, the framers of our Constitu- 
tion, as if divinely inspired, prepared at that convention, over 
which the Father of his country presided, a form of government, 
and a code so just, so simple in its terms, and so binding in the 
innate strength of its requirements and obligations, that it has 
become the wonder, as it is the admiration, of the civilized 
world. It secured a more perfect union than the Confederacy had 
made, and declared its great purpose to be to establish and pre- 
serve to the people of the States of that Union, the enjoyment of 
" life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 

Emerging from the darkening clouds of a seven years' revolu- 
tionary war, after privation and distress, alternate defeat and vic- 
tory, with an impoverished treasury, and a beggared array, drawn 
together frora thirteen feeble colonies, at a time of gloom and de- 
spondence, this noble Constitution of free government was pre- 
sented by Washington and his associates, to their country and 
the world, complete in all the adjustments of power, and so ob- 
viously wise and necessary to regulated freedom, that it was ac- 
cepted almost unanimously by the people and the States. 

Its foundations had been laid deep in that love of liberty which 
distinguished the settlers of the American Colonies, and it rose a 
lofty and spotless column, high, high, above all other monuments 
of human government. 

Should you not, gentlemen, then, task your utmost energies and 
instruct the rising generation to study it, to understand its spirit, 
to maintain its legitimate powers, and to cling to it as the only 
bond of our union and glory. It encountered, (as all things hu- 
man must,) some opposition to its adoption, arising more from the 
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fears which former republican efforts in the Old World had caused, 
by their corruption and their downfall, but as the swords of Wash- 
ington, Hamilton, Green, Knox, Howard and their fellow-patriots, 
had achieved the freedom it secured, so in debate and with the 
pen they maintained and enforced its successful adoption. Ham- 
ilton, whom I have placed second only to Washington, devoted 
the highest powers of the most gifted intellect, and of the largest 
statesmanship to the vindication of the Constitution, in a work 
which should be your guide whenever you are called to act — for 
the Federalist must be read by all who love their country, and 
would understand the principles of her great Magna Charter. 

The works of English statesmen are justly admired — Boling- 
broke, Burke and Jones, and the galaxy whose fame covers as with 
light the firmament of British literature, but I hazard nothing in 
saying, that the Constitution, with the writings of Hamilton, Jay 
and Marshall, in expounding its letter and spirit, are equalled by 
no other productions, in any language, upon civil polity, and can 
never be surpassed for the terseness, purity and power of the style 
and tone which distinguish them. 

Alas, gentlemen, our fathers are no more ! The sublime spirits 
of the " Age of Washington" are with us only in their glorious 
deeds — the battle field and the hand of time have snatched all, 
nearly all, from the sight of the present generation — a lingering 
star or two yet hang upon our horizon, shedding on us their mel- 
low light ; — soon they will set forever, unclouded to the last. 
Where are Washington, Hamilton, Jeflferson, Marshall, Madison ? 
Their forms can no more be seen, but they can never die. — The 
Father of his country sleeps amid the children of that land he 
liberated. Those of you that have visited the Hero's tomb, have 
looked upon the spot where he reposed when the storm of battle 
was over, and refreshed his spirit, and elevated his thoughts by the 
culture and contemplation of his fields. Beside him was her, the 
chosen and beloved consort and companion of his life, like him in 
the gentler attributes and graces of her sex, fitted to be the sharer 
of his glory and repose — all still remains, but the Patriot sleeps 
on the banks of the Potomac, by the side of his fond associate 
and exalted partner — wild flowers and the evergreen are blooming 
over them in token of the renewal and immortality of the glorious 
dead, and when summer comes there birds sing sweetly, and like 
angels' voices, tell of happiness, harmony and peace. 



11 

Co tlien, gentlemen, to that hallowed spot, and learn to be 
ffood and ijreat. 

" In triumph there, the patriot may feel 

Recalling days of blood and glory past, 
There let the youth of every nation kneel, 
And learn to be what, Washington, thou wast." 

I said Madison was no more ; alas, the mournful tribute of the 
living is now to be paid to her* his venerated and venerable con- 
sort, whose virtues, whose benevolence and grace, cast a lustre 
even over the "Age of Washington." 

The survivor of that noble group of heroic men and splendid 
women, she was a queen in all but its titles, whose crown and 
scepire were charity and love — she lived to witness the country 
that her illustrious husband served, honoring his memory, and it 
will embalm her own. — Over her tomb will the warm tears of the 
poor and humble be shed, and amid the more imposing emblems of 
public sorrow, shall fall the widow's sigh and the orphan's grief, 
over their friend and benefactress. — Thus, thus, like shadows do 
they leave us ! The partner of the great Hamilton yet lives, lull 
of the intellect and memories of that great age. 

Marshall, the friend of Madison, the biographer of Washington, 
of whom it was truly said, that when " the ermine of justice de- 
scended on his shoulders it touched nothing not as pure and spot- 
less as itself," will live forever with them in their works of patriotism. 
But upon you and the rising generation will devolve the preserva- 
tion of these their works — this Constitution, and the Union which 
rests on it, and the blessings of religion and law which flourish 
under it. 

The great effort of the men of the Age of W^ashington, was to 
found an empire where all who had the spirit to be free, or the 
virtue to be just, might come and find refuge and security. No 
lords, no aristocracy, no exclusive classes, but one title higher than 
all others alone could be bestowed, tlie title of a free American 
citizen. 

The stars of heraldry and the cloth of gold, are here as they 
placed them, shining emblazoned and undinmied on the banner 
of the Union, and spread out under the heavens as the only sign 
by which an American should live, should conquer, or die. 

* Mrs. Madison died the day before this address was delivered. 



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If party spirit, and the tendencies of a restless and progressive 
age, drive sometimes our national bark upon tempestuous billows, 
and clouds seem to overwhelm her, still while that flao- is on high 
and flies above us, the Constitution will weather every storm in 
safety, while in the language of the immortal Washington, " we 
preserve an indissoluble union of the States under one Federal 
head, and a sacred regard to public justice, and cultivate the pre- 
valence of friendly and pacific dispositions among the people of 
the United States, which will induce them to forget their local 
prejudices and policies, and to make those mutual concessions 
which are requisite to the general prosperity, there will be no dan- 
ger. These (said that illustrious man) are the pillows on which 
the glories of our independency and national character must be 
supported. Liberty is the basis, and whoever would dare sap the 
foundation or overturn the structure, under whatever specious pre- 
text he may attempt it, will merit the bitterest execration and the 
severest punishment which can be inflicted by his injured country." 

How wise and how prophetic ! The excesses of faction and 
the mad ambition of public men, have in our day occasioned 
anxiety and alarm ; questions of temporary interest and of do- 
mestic concern are often magnified and enflamed by partizan 
demagogues, to carry a selfish purpose, or secure a party triumph, 
names of former renown are enlisted in the north and south, and 
the baleful voice of disunion is even heard muttering ill-omened 
and phrenzied threats against the Constitution and Union. But, 
gentlemen, be not dismayed, that Union is founded on a rock, 
against which the storm will spend its fury so long as you, and 
those that come after you, shall frown down and trample in the 
dust any and every public man from whose traitor lips the harsh 
word of disunion shall ever fall. 

They may amend or change the Constitution by its own pro- 
visions and in the forms prescribed, but quench and put out its 
light and 

[ know not where is that Promethian heat 
That can this light relume. 

The Constitution and Union, should be your only watch-word, 
the north, the south, the east and the west, are all equally inter- 
ested in the preservation of the Union, the offspring of common 
ettorts, treasure and blood, it must be maintained now by a com- 
promise of all interests, and the sacrifice of every sectional pre- 



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judice — witli the Union and the Constitution, we can stand against 
the world in arms — without them 

"None so poor as do us reverence." 

During the life of the great Washington, he witnessed the fruits, 
though immature and fleeting, of our revolutionary example and 
his own splendid virtues. In England, he beheld a ministry like 
Lord North's driven out of power, and the liberal principles of the 
elder Pitt in the ascendency, representation and taxation were 
more nearly equalized, and restrictions on popular rights taken off. 
But more fearful, more bloody were the changes in France, " our 
friend in peace, our ally in war," scarcely had her gallant sons 
under La Fayette returned from their well fought fields in America, 
than burst forth in their own land the long suspended but terrific 
flame of civil revolution, terrific and sanguinary indeed it was, it 
passed over Europe like a wild tornado, sweeping away with all 
that was vicious, almost everything that was useful — the Red Re- 
publicans of France, carried on their work of ruin in a spirit of 
vengeance and not of reform, and in striking down one tyrant to 
the dust raised up a thousand despots in the persons of ferocious 
and sanguinary Jacobins, more dangerous to liberty than the scep- 
tre and the crown. 

Thus in the age of Washington was enacted the noblest and 
most patriotic drama in human aflfairs in America, and in France 
the most startling and terrible tragedy the world had ever seen 

The former vindicated the rights of man without crime and out 
rage. The latter asserted human freedom, yet deluged the world 
with blood, and buried liberty and religion beneath the ruins of 
the very despotism which had oppressed them. 

From the one, rose the majestic form and glorious character of 
Washington, as the brightest living model of a citizen and a patriot. 

From the other, the warlike and imperial figure of Napoleon 
Bonaparte, as an example of human elevation, without patriotism 
and virtue. 

The conqueror of Europe and the captive of St. Helena, sur- 
vived the Father of his Country, chained to his Promethean rock, 
he expired crownless and abandoned. 

Washington breathed his last upon the bosom of that beloved 
country he had redeemed, and closing his own eyes in peace, died 
as he had lived, without ioarand without reproach.— And although 



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ills bones repose not beneath the gorgeous Temple of the Invalids, 
and were borne with no imperial ceremonies to the tomb, yet they 
are canonized by a nation's veneration, and have a monument 
more enduring than the everlasting hills — that monument is the 
Constitution of the United States, upon which I have to-day en- 
deavored to turn your admiring eyes. — Yes, gentlemen, while 
human hearts palpitate, and the tongues of freemen can utter it, 
the name of your Washington will rally every true American citi- 
zen to its defence and support. 

Partizan flattery has, in our day, tendered the homage due alone 
to the Father of his Country, to others upon whom their zeal 
would place the titles of Washington — but no, no ; against this 
sacrilege every American heart should rebel. — There is but one 
Washington, and it is to be feared, that the men of his age have 
passed off the stage never again to appear, 

" For take them for all in all 
We ne'er shall look upon their like again." 

In the late struggle of the French people, in vain did Lamartine 
pray for a European Washington. — There are spirits as heroic and 
purposes as pure as his, but in what character of ancient or modern 
times is there such an absence of self, and such a boundless love 
of country ? Perhaps at this moment, while I am addressing you, 
patriots on the plains of Hungary, or within the gates of St. 
Peter's, are performing acts of as dauntless courage, but none can 
live or die in establishing such a Republic as that of Washington. 
Study, then, I beseech you, the great lessons to be gathered from 
the Age of Washington. 

In your classic studies, many of you remember the beautiful 
sentiments recorded of a heathen philosopher. The god-like 
Plato, as he was termed by his followers, gives in his writings a 
dialogue between Socrates and Alcibiades, which, though in the 
cold translation, is as beautiful as it is true. 

Socrates says to Alcibiades : 

" If you wish public measures to be right and noh\e, virtue must 
be given by you to the citizens. 

Alcibiades replies : 

How could any one deny this? 

Socrates. Virtue is, therefore, that which is to be first possessed 
both by you and by every other person who would have direction 



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and care, not only for himself, and things dear to liimself, but for 
the state, and things dear to the state. 

Alcibiades. You speak truly. 

Socrates. To act justly and wisely, (both you and the state,) 
you must act according to the will of God." 

This embodies all, and more than modern philosophy has taught, 
without the light of Christianity, for the philosophy of Plato was 
unable to search out the holy mysteries of revealed religion. 

Let not then, gentlemen, in your hands at least, this virtue of 
which Plato speaks, and Washington illustrated, be impaired or 
lost in the walks of private or public life. 

The times in which you are called to live and act are perilous 
and changing. The high tone of public virtue has been lowered 
too often in high places. 

The standard of a partizan leader is too often surrounded by 
selfish demagogues — this in some degree, is inseparable from a free 
government and a free press, where every man is a sovereign, and 
every scribbler thinks himself a statesman, but the remedy for it all 
is education and knowledge ; let light shine upon the hovel of the 
emigrant and the trapper — send the schoolmaster abroad, erect 
school houses and churches ; excite and encourage the popular 
mind after information, and unfold in the pulpit, from the rostrum, 
and through the press, the principles of our government. Carry 
the people back to the Age of Washington, and keep ever before 
them his example, his virtue and his wisdom. Then, indeed, will 
you have performed for this and future generations, a benefaction 
more enduring than conquests can give ; and upon every hill-top, 
and in every valley, shall be heard the hum of busy industry, and 
the songs of piety and patriotism. 

But I must close this brief and imperfect address, entitled if at 
all to your consideration, only as it is the sincere and earnest utter- 
ance of sentiments and views long entertained by one, who like 
you now looks back to a period when like you he was about to bid 
adieu to the bright days of boyhood in the groves of the academy, 
and enter upon the stern duties and responsibilities of manhood. 

The ready instincts of every heart before me, and the bright and 
beaming eyes which surround me, would seem silently but elo- 
quently to invoke for you a long future of honor, and usefulness, 
and happiness. Yes, gentlemen, there will be scenes encoun- 
tered and sacred ties created, I may hope by most of you, in 
which, while your path is illuminated by the ever burning light of 



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that religion which has protected you here, your hearts shall 
feel, if they have not already felt, not the " pangs of despised 
love," but the generous affection and unselfish sympathy of these 
the fairer and the purer beings of our race. 

Perhaps they and you will smile, and bethink you of the fable of 
the fox, yet should I not breathe one word of that happiness 
which the reverend ministers around me and the church has con- 
secrated as a sacrament. 

" For happy, they the happiest of their kind, 
Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate, 
Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend." 

Cherish then these flowers which shall bloom over the rugged 
pathway of life. 

Above all recollect that there is a Providence 

Which shapes our ends, 
Rough hew them as we may. 

And that the holy religion under whose wings you have been fos- 
tered here, is the only blessing after all, which can assuage anger, 
moderate ambition, sanctify love, and raising the mind from objects 
of temporary interest^ place it upon those of eternal hope. 



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